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United States Patent | 5,063,562 |
Barzilai ,   et al. | November 5, 1991 |
A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the window size in a session between a sender and a receiver over a link of a packet transmission network. This invention discloses a dynamic window adjustment scheme to determine the optimum window size with a minimum number of iterations. This invention also covers a method and apparatus for sharing pacing credits among a number of sessions during which packets are transmitted over the network. With this invention sessions having no packets to transmit will send pacing credits to a shared credit pool while pacing credits will be distributed to those session having packets to transmit.
Inventors: | Barzilai; Tsipora P. (Millwood, NY); Chen; Mon-Song (Katonah, NY); Kadaba; Bharath K. (Peekskill, NY); Kaplan; Marc A. (Purdys, NY) |
Assignee: | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Appl. No.: | 527609 |
Filed: | May 23, 1990 |
Current U.S. Class: | 370/231; 370/412 |
Intern'l Class: | H04J 003/24; H04J 003/16 |
Field of Search: | 370/82,83,84,94.1,94.2,94.3,89,79,95.1,95.2,95.3,85.8,85.7,29,24 |
4736369 | Apr., 1988 | Barzilai et al. | 370/94. |